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Black Migration and Poverty in Boston, 1865-1900 (Studies in Social Discontinuity)

History

Pleck, Elizabeth H.

Americas

Academic Pr

The American Man

Politics & Social Sciences

Pleck, Joseph H.

Social Sciences

Prentice Hall Direct

Family violence, once considered a private trouble, has become a matter of intense public concern. Many people think the problems of child abuse and wife-beating were "discovered" in the last two decades. This book, the first history of family violence in the United States, proves otherwise. Based on enormous research into court records, newspaper accounts, and autobiographies, the book creates a broad portrait of America's attitudes toward family violence over time, considering not only how the problem has been defined but also the institutional and legal remedies reformers have devised to respond to it. The author investigates the reasons for the ebb and flow of societal attention to the problem from the Puritans of New England, who devised a criminal code to punish wife-beating, to Victorian efforts to prevent cruelty to children, to the battered woman's movement of our time. Pleck contends that an unusual social and political atmosphere, rather than a change in the nature or incidence of family violence, stimulated concern. Furthermore, Pleck shows that the goal of polieis against family violence has been, for much of American history, to shore up the family and reconcile victim and victimizer within the home. Placing the safety of victims ahead of the goal of preserving the family leads inevitably to increased efforts to remove victims from their homes, Pleck maintains. Yet such efforts are controversial, and throughout history the most successful reformers have carefully sidestepped this issue, the book shows.

Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present

Oxford University Press

Family violence, once considered a private problem, has become a matter of intense public concern. Many people believe that social concern about child abuse and wife beating began in the 1960s. Elizabeth Pleck's study, the first history of family violence in the United States, proves otherwise. Based on in-depth research using court records, newspaper accounts, and autobiographies, Domestic Tyranny presents a broad portrait of America's attitudes towards family violence over time, considering not only the varying definitions of the problem but also the institutional and legal remedies reformers have created to respond it. Pleck investigates the reasons for the ebb and flow of societal attention to the problem from the Puritans of New England, who devised a criminal code to punish wife beating, to Victorian efforts to prevent cruelty to children, to the battered woman's movement of our time.

Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England

They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions. Hidden behind the banner of achieving freedom was the assumption that freedom meant affirming black manhood The struggle for freedom in New England was different for men than for women. Black men in colonial and revolutionary New England were struggling for freedom from slavery and for the right to patriarchal control of their own families. Women had more complicated desires, seeking protection and support in a male headed household while also wanting personal liberty. Eventually women who were former slaves began to fight for dignity and respect for womanhood and access to schooling for black children.

Adams, Catherine

They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions.  Hidden behind the banner of achieving freedom was the assumption that freedom meant affirming black manhood The struggle for freedom in New England was different for men than for women. Black men in colonial and revolutionary New England were struggling for freedom from slavery and for the right to patriarchal control of their own families. Women had more complicated desires, seeking protection and support in a male headed household while also wanting personal liberty. Eventually women who were former slaves began to fight for dignity and respect for womanhood and access to schooling for black children.

The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In Not Just Roommates, Elizabeth H. Pleck explores the rise of cohabitation, and the changing social norms that have allowed cohabitation to become the chosen lifestyle of more than fifteen million Americans. Despite this growing social acceptance, Pleck contends that when it comes to the law, cohabitors have been, and continue to be, treated as second-class citizens, subjected to discriminatory laws, limited privacy, a lack of political representation, and little hope for change. Because cohabitation is not a sexual identity, Pleck argues, cohabitors face the legal discrimination of a population with no group identity, no civil rights movement, no legal defense organizations, and, often, no consciousness of being discriminated against. Through in-depth research in written sources and interviews, Pleck shines a light on the emergence of cohabitation in American culture, its complex history, and its unpleasant realities in the present day.

Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution

University of Chicago Press

The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In Not Just Roommates, Elizabeth H. Pleck explores the rise of cohabitation, and the changing social norms that have allowed cohabitation to become the chosen lifestyle of more than fifteen million Americans. Despite this growing social acceptance, Pleck contends that when it comes to the law, cohabitors have been, and continue to be, treated as second-class citizens, subjected to discriminatory laws, limited privacy, a lack of political representation, and little hope for change. Because cohabitation is not a sexual identity, Pleck argues, cohabitors face the legal discrimination of a population with no group identity, no civil rights movement, no legal defense organizations, and, often, no consciousness of being discriminated against. Through in-depth research in written sources and interviews, Pleck shines a light on the emergence of cohabitation in American culture, its complex history, and its unpleasant realities in the present day.

A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women (A Touchstone Book)

Cott, Nancy F.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

American Council of Learned Societies/University of Michigan

Nostalgia for the imagined warm family gatherings of yesteryear has colored our understanding of family celebrations. Elizabeth Pleck examines family traditions over two centuries and finds a complicated process of change in the way Americans have celebrated holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Chinese New Year, and Passover as well as the life cycle rituals of birth, coming of age, marriage, and death. By the early nineteenth century carnivalesque celebrations outside the home were becoming sentimental occasions that used consumer culture and displays of status and wealth to celebrate the idea of home and family. The 1960s saw the full emergence of a postsentimental approach to holiday celebration, which takes place outside as often as inside the home, and recognizes changes in the family and women's roles, as well as the growth of ethnic group consciousness.  This multicultural, comparative history of American family celebration, rich in detail and spiced with telling anecdotes and illustrations and a keen sense of irony, offers insight into the significance of ethnicity and consumer culture in shaping what people regard as the most memorable moments of family life.

Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals

Harvard University Press

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Black Migration and Poverty in Boston, 1865-1900 (Studies in Social Discontinuity)

The American Man

Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present

Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present

Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England

Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England

Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution

Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution

A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women (A Touchstone Book)

Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals